Science and technology, like all original creations of the human spirit, are unpredictable. If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either topushitforwardor tostop it, isgambling inhumanlives.

-Dyson, FreemanJ(ohn)
  Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

The hope of science isthe perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a fewand the damnation of almost everybody.

-Ingersoll, Robert
  The Age of Reason, Mar.

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Captain La Hire. Saint  Joan, sc.2.

Iseriouslyadviseall sensitive composersto dieattheage of thirty-seven. I know I've gone through the first halcyon period, and am just about ripe for my critical damnation.

-Walton, Sir WilliamTurner
  Letter.